Browsing Topic Best Art School Quotes

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

It’s because the idea of what’s cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what’s cool is whether or not you’ve been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what’s cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something – out-of-the-norm stuff.

I went to art school when I was little.

I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.

It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.

I hate the phrase One thing led to another. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn’t it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

It’s hard sometimes when you’re in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it’s kind of like it’s all the odd kids. It’s all the kids that don’t fit in at their regular schools, because you’re into something and excited about something that other kids really aren’t into. When you go to art school, everybody’s kind of on the same page.

Art-school girls are very nice.

Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.

When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn’t know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn’t know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

When I was painting in art school – and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly – a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything – like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn’t going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that’s put into your head. You are never thin enough.

What they don’t teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

I went to a theater arts school, so I’m interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I’m a performer. That’s what I do. That’s what I want to do.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time – it’s not just one good idea out of art school.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

It’s useful to know how much society’s holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn’t get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

You only do exercises in art school. That’s not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don’t know what you are! But that’s what you have to search for.